Hearing this from their 13-year-old son, Gustav and Aurelia Schwarzenegger just sighed and shook their heads. They’d always had their suspicions, but now those suspicions had been confirmed. They started to look for “psychiatrist” in the Graz Yellow Pages.

But Arnold was serious. At 14, he started an intensive training program with Kurt Marnul, the former Mr. Austria. At 15, he studied psychology with Dr. Karl Gerstl to learn more about the power of mind over body. At 17, he officially started his competitive career. And at 18, he got thrown in jail.

OK, so getting arrested wasn’t exactly part of the original plan, but in many ways it couldn’t be avoided. Here’s what happened: As a good citizen of Austria, Arnold was required by law to serve a year in the army. Fine, he started serving. He was assigned to be a tank driver. Fine, he started tanking. He was forbidden to leave the base to compete in any stupid bodybuilding competitions. Fine, he wouldn’t leave the base to compete in any stupid bodybuilding competitions. But, hey, they didn’t say anything about smart bodybuilding competitions, did they? So one day, he slipped out of camp, hopped a train to Stuttgart, and — quite smartly — won a trophy. READ MORE